It’s the taste

Our taste to be precise. That’s what you’re buying when you choose to work with Stuff & Nonsense. You’re buying our taste for exquisite typography, emotive colours, and website design layouts that look beautiful and work wonderfully on every size and type of screen. You’re buying one of the UK’s best known web design studios, directed by Andy Clarke and a design process that’s successful in delivering effective websites on time and on budget.

Fabulously flexible website design

For seventeen years, household brand names, charities, government organisations and businesses, large and small, have trusted us to design their visual identities, websites and other digital applications. Browse our design feed to get a feel for our work.

Design for WWF UK Fundraising

For the past few months, we’ve been working alongside the in-house team at WWF UK to redesign their critically important fundraising pages. Over a six week period, we designed signature pages that are visually engaging and improve a supporter’s experience with better content and a smoother payment process. WWF UK also adopted our web design manual as their own ‘Bamboo,’ helping WWF’s other designers maintain consistency across projects.

You can read more in our in-depth WWF UK Fundraising article. If you’d like to find out about how working with a design manual pattern library can help you achieve better design consistency, get in touch.

Design for STEM Learning

The National STEM Centre and Science Learning Network websites provided complementary services. We created a new design that brings both entities together to form a single service offering. Several signature pages give its design the feel of a magazine.

Designing colour themes for WWF UK

We’re currently working on redesigning WWF UK’s adoption and donation pages. There are fourteen species for people to adopt and to help bring the design to life, we designed a palette of colours and tints for each species. We’ll use these in subtle ways across the redesigned pages.

Redrawing the Lock Stock logo mark

Lock Stock self storage is a well-known and highly recognisable North Wales brand. Keeping this recognition in mind, we refreshed their logo mark by making its colours more natural and changing the typeface from Helvetica to Frutiger. Left: The previous version of their logo. Right: Our redrawn Lock Stock logo.

Full Fat Things biscuit logo mark

Everyone loves a good biscuit—that’s the British type, not the American—so when we decided on high calorie, no compromise, full fat ‘things’ for Full Fat Things, biscuits were the simple choice for their new logomark. We were inspired by classic ‘from the tin’ biscuit designs.

Website design for Honey

Honey are an award-winning branding agency whose clients include Tesco, Gatwick Airport and Harrods. They asked us to design their website and we delivered responsive website templates ready for integration by their developers.

Redrawing the Triple Science Support Program logo mark

For STEM Learning, we redrew their Triple Science Support Program logo mark according to branding style guidelines. Left: The previous version of their logo. Right: Our redrawn Triple Science Support Program logo mark.

New rules for STEM Learning logos

Over several years, the National STEM Centre and National Science Learning Network had commissioned seven logo designs. We brought those logos together as part of the STEM Learning family. We developed a set of rules for the use of colour and style and we designed a grid on which all re-imagined STEM Learning logos are now based. Left–right: The grid, STEM Learning, Triple Sciences Network.

Website design for Internazionale

Designing for editorial and news content is one of our favourite design challenges and we worked with our good friend Mark Porter of Mark Porter Associates to design the website for Italian magazine Internazionale.

Logo mark design for Bevan Rose

When corporate law practice Bevan Rose described the complexity of their work for their clients, we were reminded of the skill needed to produce fine detailed marquetry, so we experimented with a series of marquetry inspired logo marks for their new visual identity.

Full Fat Things coaster designs

Drupal developers Full Fat Things sponsored coffee stops at a major Drupal conference, so we designed two coasters and arranged letterpress printing for them. Our coaster designs included their biscuit logo and the tagline we developed for them; “All Drupal, no half measures.”

Website design for Dagens Næringsliv (DN)

Designing for editorial and news content is one of our favourite design challenges and we worked with our good friend Mark Porter of Mark Porter Associates to design the website for Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN.)

Website design for Houden Bags

Houden Bags curate and sell a collection of the best tech carry and accessories. They asked us to design a new visual identity and website templates for their company. We delivered branding assets plus static design visuals for key website pages.

Code Enigma’s logo mark tones

We decided to make Code Enigma’s logo mark from tones of a single colour, rather than use several colours as their previous mark had done. Giving them the ability to change colour made it possible to place their logo on different background colours and images.

Code Enigma’s logo mark colours

Logo design for Houden Bags

For our final logo design for Houden Bags, we paired the Azo Sans typeface by Rui Abreu with a motif that represents both stitching and a zip. We also designed stationery and website templates to integrate with their online store.